Howard County
M77 · Nashville, Arkansas · Howard County · map
Howard County is a public-use airport owned by Howard County, 3 miles north of Nashville, Arkansas, 553 feet above sea level. Its one runway, 01/19, is 3,994 feet of asphalt. It has fuel (100LL avgas) and about 7 based aircraft. The FAA counts about 6,000 takeoffs and landings a year.
The airport
- Codes
- FAA M77
- Kind
- Airport · open to the public · publicly owned
- Owner
- Howard County
- Elevation
- 553 feet above sea level
- Control tower
- No control tower
- Attended
- unattended
- Lights
- runway lights see the remarks below; beacon sunset to sunrise
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Repairs
- airframe: none; engine: none
- Parking
- tiedown
- On the chart
- Memphis sectional
- Magnetic variation
- 2E
- In the FAA's files since
- March 1969
Runway
For understanding the field, not for navigation.
| Runway | Length × width | Surface | Lights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/19 | 3,994 × 75 ft | Asphalt, fair | Medium-intensity lights |
- Runway 01: PAPI, two lights on the left, threshold displaced 115 ft, trees 40 ft high 1,650 ft from the end
- Runway 19: PAPI, two lights on the left, trees 15 ft high 500 ft from the end
Radio frequencies
| Common traffic advisory (CTAF) | 122.9 | |
| Texarkana and center (remote transmitter) Low | 123.925 |
Based aircraft as counted for the FAA, fiscal year 2024
Takeoffs and landings a year about 6,000, the FAA's fiscal year 2024 (October 2023 to September 2024)
Local flights stay in the traffic pattern or nearby, often practice; travelling flights arrive from or leave for somewhere else. Counts at airports without a tower are the FAA's estimates.
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Aircraft registered in Nashville from the FAA register
8 aircraft are registered to owners in Nashville, Arkansas: 7 piston singles, 1 weight-shift or powered parachute. Not every one of them is based at this airport; the based-aircraft count above is the FAA's figure for this airport alone.
Individuals are counted, never named. All aircraft registered in Arkansas.
Accidents and incidents at or near this airport NTSB records · 4 since 1982, 1 fatal
Cases the NTSB recorded with this as the nearest airport, newest first. Each opens the full report in plain English.
Nearby within 30 nautical miles
The FAA's remarks as written in the airport file
- Runway 01 fence 3 feet and road 7 feet below thld 200 feet from runway end.
- Activate medium-intensity runway lights runway 01/19 and PAPI runways 01 and 19 - the common traffic frequency.
- Self serve fuel available 24 hours.
- +3 feet fence 183 feet from runway end.
- Markings faded runway 1
- Markings faded runway 19
- Approach ratio 44:1 from dthr.
- Runway 19 turnaround has a 10 feet drop off.
Facts from the FAA's airport file effective October 1, 2026, written out in plain English; weather from the National Weather Service's aviation weather service; registered aircraft from the FAA register as of October 5, 2026; accidents from the NTSB's public database. Owners are shown only when they are an organisation; no person is named. Check the official sources before a flight: this page is for understanding an airport, not for planning one.